Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cain (The Postman Always Rings Twice, Serenade) through five-alarm fires and the sudden inheritance of large blocks of stock. This is very nearly true. Cain's appeal is partly sheer narrative skill-and partly the fact that he is one of the world's most vivid tellers of dingy stories...
Britons got a vivid, close-up description of Adolf Hitler as he appeared to a recent visitor-nervous as a thwarted cat, biting his fingernails, drinking quantities of sweet champagne. Cedric Salter, Istanbul correspondent of the London Daily Express, wrote that he got the description from an unnamed participant in recent conferences to which the Führer had summoned four satellites (King Boris of Bulgaria, Admiral Nicholas Horthy of Hungary, Marshal Ion Antonescu of Rumania and Croat Puppet Ante Pavelich). The dispatch added...
Ravel: Rapsodie Espagnole (Cleveland Orchestra, Artur Rodzinski conducting; Columbia; 4 sides). One of Ravel's most vivid pieces brilliantly, if somewhat inelastically, performed...
Army with a Purpose. These are the regiments' separate memories, their separate battles. The common memory freshest in all their minds, vivid even in the minds of those who were not there, is of a terrible, bloody half-battle: Dunkirk...
...Without religion there can be no real understanding of life. Without faith our human problems, great and small, are difficult of solution." Christian Wife. The Methodist Church also published the vivid and more emotional testimony of the Madame: "By nature I am not a religious person ... a mystic. I am practical minded...